Chapter Summaries

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger visited a floating island beyond the heavens, where its mysterious resident introduced herself as Qiu Qi. As Bai Yujun tested Qiu Qi’s knowledge of the Dragon Court era, she noticed a strange reaction in Qiu Qi’s Primordial Spirit and a change in the Hot Spring’s temperature.

• Bai Yujun dragged the weightless Fat Tiger through the aurora to the floating island and found that her True Sight was blocked by its resident.
• Bai Yujun and the Six-Winged Strange Snake examined the island’s contradictory black-and-white nature while the High Person remained kneeling under the woman’s influence.
• The woman introduced herself as Qiu Qi, and Bai Yujun gave her name as Ao Tian before joking that the High Person’s powerful sect could offer Qiu Qi a place and job.
• Qiu Qi questioned what the High Person sought and observed that finding the remote island suggested his purpose was significant.
• Bai Yujun asked whether factional disputes could be more dangerous than the end of the Dragon Court era, then detected a faint fluctuation in Qiu Qi’s Primordial Spirit as the Hot Spring warmed.

Bai Yujun tested Qiu Qi’s attitude toward the Ancient Desolate Dragon Court and exposed her as an ancient creature disguising herself as a Daoist. When Qiu Qi refused to join her camp, Bai Yujun revealed that it was connected to the Dragon Court, leaving Qiu Qi shocked.

• Bai Yujun questioned Qiu Qi about the dragon clan and the Dragon Queen, and Qiu Qi’s reaction betrayed her familiarity with the Ancient Desolate Dragon Court.
• Bai Yujun pointed out that Qiu Qi’s description of the Dragon Queen revealed she had lived during the Dragon Court’s era.
• Bai Yujun exposed Qiu Qi as a creature who had eaten a Daoist and copied the identities of people who entered the island.
• Bai Yujun invited Qiu Qi to join her camp, but Qiu Qi refused and said the religious sect could offer her the same benefits.
• Bai Yujun threatened to leave Qiu Qi asleep with her severe wounds, then explained that her camp was connected to the Ancient Desolate Dragon Court.
• Qiu Qi staggered backward in shock, and the wooden furniture shattered as the Hot Spring boiled.

Bai Yujun provoked Qiu Qi into a fight and sent the Six-Winged Strange Snake to attack her while she mapped the floating island. She discovered that the High Person’s supposedly safe Hot Spring was dissolving his body and spirit, and realized he had jumped into the blood of a fierce creature.

• Bai Yujun threatened Qiu Qi and baited her into fighting by revealing the Six-Winged Strange Snake.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake attacked Qiu Qi, who evaded it and used spells to withstand its assault.
• The battle’s alternating extremes of heat and cold drove Fat Tiger to spin between the sunny and dark sides, while the High Person jumped into the Hot Spring for safety.
• Bai Yujun mapped the island and concluded that it was formed from the petrified shell and remains of an ancient fierce creature.
• Bai Yujun looked into the Hot Spring and saw that it was dissolving the High Person’s golden skeleton, flesh, blood, Primordial Spirit, lifespan, and fortune.

Bai Yujun used her Gaze into the Past to uncover Qiu Qi’s history and the ancient spear fragment lodged in the Hot Spring. As Qiu Qi was cornered by the Six-Winged Strange Snake, Bai Yujun drew the fragment from the wound and claimed it.

• Bai Yujun studied the Hot Spring and watched the Six-Winged Strange Snake chase Qiu Qi, while cultivators in Cangyun Valley saw the secret island appear in the sky.
• The Six-Winged Strange Snake struck Qiu Qi into the forest, giving Bai Yujun the chance to use her Gaze into the Past.
• Bai Yujun learned that Qiu Qi was an Ancient Creature resembling an insect longhorn beetle, and that a half-broken Ancient Dragon spear blade had lodged in her neck and spine.
• Qiu Qi recognized Bai Yujun as a dragon and tried to flee, but the Six-Winged Strange Snake blocked her path.
• Bai Yujun manifested her dragon soul, spoke dragon language, and drew the three-zhang spear-blade fragment from the Hot Spring.

Bai Yujun subdued Qiu Qi and took control of her floating island, turning it into a vessel bound for the Dragon Palace. As the island sailed through the Small World’s barrier, Six-Winged Strange Snake recalled its past in the Endless Void and wondered what the future would bring.

• Bai Yujun examined an ancient broken spear tip, stored it in a sack that burst, and decided she might reforge it for an old friend.
• Bai Yujun spotted Qiu Qi’s real body and helped Six-Winged Strange Snake capture her with Death Coil.
• Qiu Qi offered to submit to the Dragon Court, but Bai Yujun chose to imprison her in the Dragon Palace until she could be trusted.
• Bai Yujun seized control of Qiu Qi’s formation, altered the floating island’s orbit, and piloted it toward the Dragon Palace.
• Fat Tiger gathered the scattered supplies while Six-Winged Strange Snake reflected on returning to the Endless Void and remembered the ancient catastrophe war.

Bai Yujun brought her floating island into the Dragon Palace’s secret realm and spent more than ten days reforging a broken spear blade into a sword. After finishing, she returned to the Dragon Palace, made an avatar to manage its affairs and the General Store, and prepared to leave on a long journey with Six-Winged Strange Snake.

• Bai Yujun steered the floating island through a meteorite’s golden dust and crashed through the Small World’s barrier toward the Dragon Palace.
• The Divine Dragon Statue opened a secret realm and drew Bai Yujun’s island inside, where she released Qiu Qi and began refining the broken spear blade.
• Six-Winged Strange Snake explored the secret realm, while Qiu Qi healed and discovered that escape was nearly impossible.
• After more than ten days of work, Bai Yujun reforged the broken blade into a sword, then took Fat Tiger back to the Dragon Palace.
• Bai Yujun created an avatar to handle Dragon Palace and General Store business, wrote instructions, and collected merchandise before setting out to take Six-Winged Strange Snake on a long journey.

Bai Yujun changed the Dragon Palace’s customs and set its demons to learning trades before leaving with Fat Tiger and Six-Winged Strange Snake to investigate a nearby Great World. The group entered the Dark Void on a journey expected to last for months.

• Bai Yujun ended kneeling and incense customs at the Dragon Palace and ordered the mountain’s demonic beasts to learn useful crafts.
• Little Hedgehog found the incense burner missing, while Fat Tiger slept peacefully beneath an ancient pine.
• Six-Winged Strange Snake asked Bai Yujun to find who had exposed Qiu Qi’s hiding place, and she warned that the Phoenix clan might have pursued her.
• Bai Yujun told Six-Winged Strange Snake that only around ten Dragons remained and that Xiao was imprisoned after losing his cultivation.
• Bai Yujun reinforced the secret realm, turned Fat Tiger into an Orange Cat, and set out with him and Six-Winged Strange Snake for a Great World.
• Six-Winged Strange Snake carried Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger through the barrier and into the Dark Void.

After surviving a patrol and reaching Genlong Ridge, Feng Ying and Yu discovered that Yu had seen a vision of the abandoned Dragon Girl Temple and decided to investigate it. Before they could leave their shelter, Immortal Realm pursuers attacked through the rain.

• Feng Ying and Yu traveled for seven days without rest, evading hazards until they entered Genlong Ridge and collapsed from exhaustion.
• While sheltering from a downpour, Yu suffered a brief vision of a Dragon Girl statue inside an abandoned temple, which she recognized as the Dragon Girl Temple Old Bald Bird had mentioned.
• Feng Ying and Yu agreed to visit the temple ruins, hoping to rest there along the way.
• As they prepared to travel, Yu spotted approaching enemies and shot a four-eared black dog with her mechanical crossbow, then fired at more pursuers in the forest.

Feng Ying held off a towering immortal general while Yu eliminated the soldiers pursuing them through the storm. Yu then concealed herself with her mechanical crossbow and waited for Feng Ying to create an opening for a decisive shot.

• Feng Ying and Yu attacked the pursuing soldiers, and Feng Ying encountered the armored immortal general while Yu went after the other enemies.
• Feng Ying fought the general with her saber, dodging his heavy strikes and saving her strength as she searched for a chance to pierce his armor.
• Yu used the rain and her crossbow and daggers to defeat the scattered immortal soldiers, including the final group of four.
• Yu returned to the battle, unfolded her mechanical crossbow, and aimed at the general while waiting for Feng Ying to create an opening.

Feng Ying and Yu coordinated an ambush against an immortal general in the rain, using Yu’s crossbow shot to create an opening for Feng Ying to strike. The general died after Feng Ying pierced his chest with the rusted saber he recognized as the White Dragon Divine Weapon.

• Feng Ying kept the immortal general occupied while Yu hid nearby with a mechanical crossbow, waiting for a clear shot.
• The general grew overconfident, believing Feng Ying’s unseen ally had fled, and lowered his vigilance.
• Yu calculated the general’s movements and shot him in the thigh with a silent crossbow bolt.
• Feng Ying rushed the wounded general and forced his heavy saber aside, driving her rusted straight saber through his armor and chest.
• The general recognized the White Dragon Divine Weapon before Yu’s follow-up bolts struck his neck and forehead, killing him.

Yu and Feng Ying killed an immortal general, discovered he belonged to the Yun Immortal Clan, and fled toward Dragon Girl Temple as pursuers closed in. The young inspector ordered a manhunt, then realized their saber might connect them to White Dragon's prophesied saber, though he doubted they were strong enough to wield it.

• Yu checked Feng Ying for injuries, and the two rested before searching the battlefield for supplies and valuables.
• Feng Ying found letters and an identity token that revealed the slain general was a scion of the Yun Immortal Clan.
• Yu and Feng Ying packed what they could and left for Dragon Girl Temple, fearing the clan's pursuers would arrive soon.
• Several days later, patrol soldiers found the stripped corpse, and the young inspector ordered two thousand soldiers to hunt down the killers.
• The young inspector connected the murderers' saber to White Dragon's prophesied saber, but dismissed the possibility that the two Rogue Cultivators could wield it.

Feng Ying and Yu raced toward the ruined temple while the Immortal Domain army tracked them with spiritual birds, hawks, and hunting dogs. With the pursuers closing in and the temple in sight, they realized as many as two thousand enemies might be behind them.

• Feng Ying and Yu continued fleeing through the mountains, learning that spiritual birds were searching the skies and that they had less than ten days to reach their destination.
• The Bald Bearded Man organized the Immortal Domain army’s search, and a black dog eventually picked up the fugitives’ scent.
• Four days later, Yu shot down a scouting hawk, delaying the pursuers as she and Feng Ying fled through rivers, battlefields, cities, and mountains.
• Feng Ying and Yu reached the vicinity of the temple ruins and debated whether to lead their pursuers there.
• Feng Ying warned Yu that perhaps a thousand or even two thousand pursuers were following them.

Feng Ying and Yu laid poisoned traps and fought to delay the Immortal Domain army as they raced toward the Abandoned Divine Temple, guided by Feng Ying’s Rusty Saber. Yu stayed behind to ambush the pursuing soldiers, while Feng Ying reached the temple steps and was confronted by the Bald Bearded Man.

• Feng Ying and Yu planted their remaining landmines throughout the forest and poisoned their blades and bolts as they fled toward the Abandoned Divine Temple.
• Feng Ying’s Rusty Saber began tugging her toward the temple, and she and Yu followed its direction, believing the Dragon Girl’s statue might help them.
• The traps killed pursuing black dogs, and the Bald Bearded Man ordered his army to advance in Battle Arrays while scouts cleared the way.
• Yu shot down the army’s hawks and falcons as the soldiers bombarded the forest, and Feng Ying and Yu raced toward the temple.
• Yu stopped at the temple entrance, assembled a mechanical crossbow, and dropped more than two hundred soldiers with a volley of poisoned bolts.
• Feng Ying reached the stone steps, where the Bald Bearded Man blocked her path.

Feng Ying and Yu fought a desperate battle against the Immortal Realm army outside the Abandoned Divine Temple, while Feng Ying’s saber awakened a growing connection to the Dragon Girl statue. The chapter ended as the temple’s main hall roof exploded and Feng Ying’s blade shed its rust and radiated killing intent.

• The Bald Bearded Man repeatedly blocked Feng Ying from reaching the temple while Yu escaped into the ruins, where the soldiers refused to cross the archway.
• Yu and Feng Ying struggled to reunite as the Immortal Realm soldiers surrounded the ruins, and the Dragon Girl statue gradually became more vivid with each clash.
• Yu charged through the shield wall to give Feng Ying a path, while Feng Ying’s saber pierced the Bald Bearded Man’s treasure pearl and destroyed it.
• The Bald Bearded Man swallowed a red pill and struck Feng Ying down the steps, but she stood again as her saber began to shine and shed its rust.
• The Bald Bearded Man turned toward the main hall when its roof exploded apart.

The immortal armor awakened in Dragon Girl Temple and rescued Yu from the Yun Clan Immortal Domain’s forces. It linked with Feng Ying, greatly increasing her combat power, and left her facing the Bald Bearded Man as he recognized the armor’s inscription.

• The immortal armor burst through the temple roof and landed between Feng Ying and the Bald Bearded Man.
• After the Bald Bearded Man failed to inspect it, the armor charged through his troops and fought them while he attacked it with his great hammer.
• The armor’s severed arm reassembled, and Yu escaped the formation and pulled Feng Ying away.
• The armor disengaged from the fight, then lunged at Feng Ying and equipped itself on her, linking its Weapon Spirit to her consciousness.
• Feng Ying tested the armor’s functions as the Bald Bearded Man recognized the words “North Heavenly Gate Guardian” on its shoulder.

Feng Ying and Yu drove off the Immortal Realm army and took its supplies before reaching the ruined Dragon Girl Temple. Elsewhere in the Cosmic Void, Bai Yujun woke and used Fat Head Tiger to fish up a rare material that could repair a broken blade.

• Feng Ying fought the Immortal Realm soldiers while Yu looted a flying vessel, and the Bald Bearded Man and his troops fled.
• Yu returned with stolen storage artifacts and treasures, and Feng Ying told her she did not regret leaving the fishing village.
• Feng Ying and Yu entered the ruined Dragon Girl Temple and saw the statue of the Dragon Girl beneath the opening in the roof.
• Bai Yujun woke aboard Six-Winged Strange Snake and rigged Fat Head Tiger to her Fishing Rod.
• Bai Yujun reeled in Fat Head Tiger with a rare fragment that could repair a broken blade.

Bai Yujun and her companions crossed the void and reached a remote Great World after months of travel. She entered quietly to investigate, refusing Six-Winged's offer to conquer the realm and promising he could feast after she made a fortune.

• Bai Yujun fished for materials as Six-Winged carried her and Fat Tiger through the meteor belt and across the void.
• Six-Winged awakened beside an ancient battlefield and told Bai Yujun that their fleeing party had fought its final battle there hundreds of millions of years earlier.
• After months of travel, Six-Winged located the Great World, though Bai Yujun mocked him for having gambled on its coordinates.
• Six-Winged offered to conquer the realm, but Bai Yujun said she had come to investigate and wanted to avoid attracting attention.
• Bai Yujun promised the hungry Six-Winged he could eat after she made a fortune, then shrank him into a tattoo and carried Fat Tiger through the World Barrier.

Bai Yujun reached Laifeng Venerable’s extravagant Golden Mountain and explored the city while hiding her identity. After entering the mountain undetected, she sensed powerful cultivators and a trove of resources that she suspected had been plundered from the Great World.

• Bai Yujun ate her fill at a city restaurant while Six-Winged complained of hunger, then paid the shopkeeper and headed toward Golden Mountain.
• Bai Yujun rode Fat Tiger through the rain, using her concealment talent to pass unnoticed while cultivating her art of destiny.
• Bai Yujun killed Patriarch Pang with a flick of her hand after overhearing him boast about rising to power by trampling dragons.
• Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger crossed Golden Mountain’s wall without triggering its Alert Formation because of her Magic Immunity Talent.
• Bai Yujun sensed several High Persons atop the mountain and detected abundant cultivation resources that she suspected were stolen from the Great World.

Hua Xing arrived at a turbulent Small World to oversee the evacuation of citizens loyal to the Empire, but the fleet canceled its mission and ordered the garrison to withdraw. She left the world largely undefended as unrest spread, while Devil Race scouts and hungry Demonic Beasts threatened the surrounding void.

• Hua Xing arrived at Ring Mountain and learned that organized groups of citizens were seeking refuge in the Empire while others gathered outside the pass to attack them.
• Hua Xing and the snake demon general determined that nearly all the Small World's leading nobles were secretly behind the unrest and had manipulated the lower ranks.
• Hua Xing received orders canceling the mission and told the garrison to evacuate loyal citizens, remove its supplies, and leave the local population to its choices.
• The Snake Demon Army awakened its dormant soldiers, sealed the main hall, dismantled its equipment, and loaded citizens onto spacecraft.
• Hua Xing left aboard a spacecraft as Ring Mountain's defenses shut down, then spotted Devil Race scouts beyond the warships and recalled the nearby Demonic Beasts.

Bai Yujun and Fat Tiger infiltrated Golden Mountain’s treasure vault while she listened to the High Persons’ plans against the Snake Demon Army. After stripping the vault and feeding spirit herbs to the Six-Winged Strange Snake, Bai Yujun abducted one of the High Persons and searched his memories.

• Bai Yujun chose to gather treasure materials before investigating further, and Fat Tiger transformed into an Orange Cat to help her sneak through Golden Mountain.
• Bai Yujun overheard High Persons discussing schemes against rival factions and plans to turn people against the Snake Demon Army.
• Bai Yujun learned that groups across the world were involved in targeting the Snake Demon Army, then decided to deal with the High Persons one at a time without leaving traces.
• Bai Yujun bypassed the vault’s formation, filled her sacks with treasure materials, and fed spirit herbs to the Six-Winged Strange Snake while Fat Tiger slept nearby.
• Bai Yujun ambushed a High Person, searched his memories, and fed him to the Six-Winged Strange Snake.